Former President Clinton added his voice to those of other prominent Democrats at the DNC urging the audience to help elect Kamala Harris president.
He wasn’t the headliner, as he had been at so many previous Democratic conventions. He didn’t close out the program, as he did twice, as the nominee of the party. But former President Clinton, speaking for the 12th time at a Democratic convention, still managed to fire up the party faithful with a folksy speech Wednesday night, in which he urged Americans to elect “Kamala Harris for the people and the other guy, who has proved even more than the first go around that he is about me myself and I.
' He began his remarks with a tribute to President Biden, comparing him to George Washington, in their willingness to leave the presidency, when they had an opportunity to seek another term. “He did something that's really hard for a politician to do,” Clinton said. “He voluntarily gave up political power.” Former President Jimmy Carter, 99 and ailing, was unable to attend the convention. That left Clinton as the Democrat’s elder statesman.
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